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Kanye West’s brazen anti-Semitism gives hate a celebrity mouthpiece. ‘There’s real harm’
Los Angeles Times
Oct. 25, 2022
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, and other experts say the ugly, unrepentant nature of the anti-Semitic comments by Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, present challenges in fighting hate.
Levin said it’s unusual and deeply troubling for such vitriolic hate-speech to come from a celebrity of West’s caliber — and it brings with it the danger of emboldening others, because his fame give his ideas credibility. West’s words have “greater significance” because of “how high a celebrity he is and just how violent the language is,” Levin said. “This is not a subtle-type of bigotry … it’s more brazen, it’s more violent and it’s unapologetic.”
CSUSB professor weighs in on Kanye West’s anti-Semitic comments
Fox 11 Los Angeles
Oct. 24, 2022
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, was interviewed for a segment on a Holocaust survivor’s reaction to Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic comments.
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